http://8thwonderfilms.com Dispatches From The Road Sun, 30 Mar 2008 03:46:19 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Well, as the final touches were being put on the Amy & Marisol short in preparation for web deployment, Director of Photography Michael Thomas and I had the opportunity to travel to Asia to film a documentary on Nepal's One Horned Asian Rhino. Needless to say it was an amazing ... http://8thwonderfilms.com/2008/03/29/wow-what-a-delay/ New Video Teasers for the Amy & Marisol short are up on the video page! Take a look! They're short! Also check out a bunch of photos from the Central America shoot on the Photography page. The A & M short is now slated to debut in April. Sorry folks. ... http://8thwonderfilms.com/2007/11/18/new-teasers-are-up/ In late 2006 a pair of friends, Amy Strang and Marisol Visali left Northern California for South America with the plan of slowly making their way North back to the U.S.. Our plan was to make a short film detailing their adventures, experiences and growth along the way. We would ... http://8thwonderfilms.com/2007/08/30/amy-marisol-early-correspondance/ Well the editing continues on the first phase of the "Beckoning Road" project. Thanks so much to everyone who's given us their time and support so far. We couldn't be doing this without you. The Amy & Marisol short is still slated to debut by the end of the year but  ... http://8thwonderfilms.com/2007/08/23/the-editing-continues/ Rumor has it that Amy, upon saying goodbye to her visiting friends at the Guatemala City Airport on Thursday, decided she’d had enough and spent the last of her money on a flight home right then and there! Stay tuned for more updates as we interview the ladies in the ... http://8thwonderfilms.com/2007/05/30/into-the-editing-roomamy-comes-home-early/ Lago de Atitlain. It was going well enough. Filming on a lancha boat while crossing the lake at sunrise seemed like an excellent beginning to an adventurous day. A day I now refer to as the “Day of accidents” or the “Day in Guate” with zero affection. Little did we ... http://8thwonderfilms.com/2007/05/22/central-america-shoot-week-three/ Oh, how much has happened since the last post! Our arrival in Antigua, Guatemala was a welcome one after 48 hours of bus rides and an all-night dance party with the girls in San Salvador. A beautiful colonial city with cobblestone streets and a piece of history on every block, Antigua ... http://8thwonderfilms.com/2007/05/16/central-america-shoot-week-two/ Hola from Guatemala! The Beckoning Road production team has been on location in Central America for one action-packed week now. The team consists of: Daniel Mode (yours truly), the director of this project; Michael Thomas, our Director of Photography and Operator; Allen Noonan our Sound man, Boom Op and Utility ... http://8thwonderfilms.com/2007/05/08/central-america-shoot-week-one/ Elevation: 6215 feet We arrived in the small hamlet of San Francisco de Sales in our second week on the road as the hot noon sun beat down on the roof of the old Blue Bird. Our old bus crawled into town, belching large clouds of black smoke at young children ... http://8thwonderfilms.com/2007/04/21/wanderings-in-central-america-part-two/ At 5:30 in the morning we arrive in Hanoi, the capital of Vietnam, on the night train from Sapa, a hill-station in the north of Vietnam. We step bleary-eyed out into the gray drizzle and into the swarm of taxi drivers. We find one who will use the meter, and ... http://8thwonderfilms.com/2007/03/20/a-day-in-the-life-of-hanoi/